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Jesus, history, and revelation : analyzing the impasse between Karl Barth and N. T. Wright
No full textThere presently exists a widespread consensus that Karl Barth and N. T. Wright represent two fundamentally opposed streams of thought within the Christian tradition, with Barth prioritizing revelation, Wright prioritizing history, and never the twain shall meet. In this thesis I challenge such a view, arguing that these two thinkers converge at several points regarding Jesus as the historical reality of revelation, Easter and Pentecost as the conditions for the possibility of recognizing revelation, and the task of the historian. To make this case, my argument proceeds over the course of three parts. In Part I, I present Barth’s understanding of the relationship between history and revelation within the sphere of christology before (Chapter 1) and after (Chapter 2) the revisions in his mature doctrine of election. The central argument of this section is that Barth’s understanding of the relationship between the creaturely ‘form’ and the revelatory ‘content’ materially changes following his identification of Jesus as the subject of election — a change that opens up conceptual space for dialogue with the historical scholarship of someone like Wright. In Part II, by way of contrast, I detail Wright’s understanding of the nature and limits of the discipline of history vis-à-vis the man Jesus (Chapter 3), which is followed by a discussion of his understanding of the nature of divine revelation and the task of theology (Chapter 4). The aim of this section is to challenge the prevailing ‘Barthian’ caricatures of Wright’s work through detailed engagement with his recent Gifford Lectures. Part III brings the project to completion by calling into question the common consensus that presents Barth and Wright as being wholly at odds with one another. By identifying their heretofore unnoticed proximity, however, I do not dissolve the genuine differences that remain between them. Rather, it is precisely through identifying their points of convergence that the actual impasse between them may be identified and fruitful debate may take place
Soils of western Wright Valley, Antarctica
No full textWestern Wright Valley, from Wright Upper Glacier to the western end of the Dais, can be divided into three broad geomorphic regions: the elevated Labyrinth, the narrow Dais which is connected to the Labyrinth, and the North and South forks which are bifurcated by the Dais. Soil associations of Typic Haplorthels/Haploturbels with ice-cemented permafrost at 70 cm. They are developed in situ in strongly weathered drift with very low surface boulder frequency and occur on the upper erosion surface of the Labyrinth and on the Dais. Typic Anhyorthels also occur at lower elevation on sinuous and patchy Wright Upper III drift within the forks. Salic Aquorthels exist only in the South Fork marginal to Don Juan Pond, whereas Salic Haplorthels occur in low areas of both South and North forks where any water table is> 50 cm. Most soils within the study area have an alkaline pH dominated by Na+ and Cl- ions. The low salt accumulation within Haplorthels/Haploturbels may be due to limited depth of soil development and possibly leaching
Secondary Literacy Across the Curriculum
No full textThis paper discusses the challenges and possibilities attendant upon successfully implementing literacy across the curriculum initiatives – or ‘school language policies’ as they have come to be known – particularly at the secondary or high school level. It provides a theoretical background to these issues, exploring previous academic discussions of school language policies, and highlights key areas of concern as well as opportunity with respect to school implementation of such policies. As such, it provides a necessary conceptual background to the subsequent papers in this special issue, which focus upon the Secondary Schools’ Literacy Initiative (SSLI) – a New Zealand funded programme that aims to establish cross-curricular language and literacy policies in secondary schools
The Persistence of the R.A. Fisher-Sewall Wright Controversy
No full textThis paper considers recent heated debates led by Jerry A. Coyne and Michael J. Wade on issues stemming from the 1929-1962 R. A. Fisher-Sewall Wright controversy in population genetics. William B. Provine once remarked that the Fisher-Wright controversy is central, fundamental, and very influential. Indeed, it is also persistent. The argumentative structure of the recent (1997-2000) debates is analyzed with the aim of eliminating a logical conflict in them, viz., that the two “sides” in the debates have different aims and that, as such, they are talking past each other. Given a philosophical analysis of the argumentative structure of the debates, suggestions supportive of Wade’s work on the debate are made that are aimed, modestly, at putting the persistent Fisher-Wright controversy on the course to resolution
[Letter from W. P. Wright to T. N. Carswell - April 7, 1953]
No full textA letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell from W. P. Wright, Chairman Board of Trustees, Hardin-Simmons University dated April 7, 1953. Wright calls a meeting of the Board of Trustees
Mitch Nelson snowboarding
No full textPhoto shows snowboarder, Mitch Nelson making a jump at a ski resort, location not identified; taken by Andy Wright in 199
[Letter from Em Wright to T. N. Carswell - April 15, 1942]
No full textA letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Chief Clerk, Taylor County Local Board, Abilene, Texas, from Em Wright, Secretary, Aspermont Luncheon Club, Aspermont, Texas, dated April 15, 1942. Wright extends to Carswell, Captain Jesse Warren, Major Alvis and T. L. Hiner an invitation to a luncheon to discuss with the citizens of Aspermont the organization of the Home Defence Guard
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Identifying idiolect in forensic authorship attribution: an n-gram textbite approach
No full textForensic authorship attribution is concerned with identifying authors of disputed or anonymous documents, which are potentially evidential in legal cases, through the analysis of linguistic clues left behind by writers. The forensic linguist “approaches this problem of questioned authorship from the theoretical position that every native speaker has their own distinct and individual version of the language [. . . ], their own idiolect” (Coulthard, 2004: 31). However, given the diXculty in empirically substantiating a theory of idiolect, there is growing concern in the Veld that it remains too abstract to be of practical use (Kredens, 2002; Grant, 2010; Turell, 2010). Stylistic, corpus, and computational approaches to text, however, are able to identify repeated collocational patterns, or n-grams, two to six word chunks of language, similar to the popular notion of soundbites: small segments of no more than a few seconds of speech that journalists are able to recognise as having news value and which characterise the important moments of talk. The soundbite oUers an intriguing parallel for authorship attribution studies, with the following question arising: looking at any set of texts by any author, is it possible to identify ‘n-gram textbites’, small textual segments that characterise that author’s writing, providing DNA-like chunks of identifying material
[Letter from W. P. Wright to T. N. Carswell - February 10, 1947]
No full textA letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from W. P. Wright, Chairman of the Board, Hardin-Simmons University dated February 10, 1947. Wright announces a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Hardin-Simmons University and stresses his request that Carswell attend citing the many changes at the University and the interest shown by Carswell in the Sandefer Memorial Building. Wright closes the letter with an appeal to Carswell to "be on hand―we need you.
[Letter from W. P. Wright to T. N. Carswell - December 11, 1952]
No full textA letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from W. P. Wright, President Board of Trustees, Hardin-Simmons University dated December 11, 1952. Due to the necessity to bring urgent business before the Board Wright calls a meeting of the HSU Trustees
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